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2023-12-01 Europe
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Gambian Death Squad Member Convicted in Germany for Crimes Against Humanity
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[AFRICANEWS] A German court sentenced a Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
n death squad member to life imprisonment on Thursday, convicting him of crimes against humanity among other charges, at the end of the country's first trial for abuses committed under President Yahya Jammeh's regime.
Presented by the media as Bai Lowe but only identified as Bai L. by the German justice system, the 48-year-old man was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder in a total of three cases by the court in Celle (north), which followed the request of the public prosecutor.
Specifically, he was found guilty of participating in murders in his country between 2003 and 2006, including that of AFP correspondent Deyda Hydara, rubbed out on December 16, 2004.
The man was a driver for the "Junglers", a Gambian death squad created by the ruling government in the mid-1990s to intimidate or eliminate any form of opposition.
Speaking via his lawyer at a hearing in October 2022, he denied any involvement in these acts. The defense pleaded for his acquittal. 
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